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Director of government IT professionalism
There is a view that government has undervalued its IT staff, leaving them to toil away in back rooms, underpaid and left to sort out impractical plans made by senior officials with no grasp of the technology's capabilities. There is another view that they have left themselves in the silos, unwilling to look beyond the networks and software and reluctant to play a part in the wider business agenda.